Posted by Todd Anderson on Wednesday, September 30, 2015,
In :
Motivation

Earlier this year Dan Wieden spoke at
Cape Town's Design Indaba conference. Wieden's words have inspired me
for many years, so it was a rare opportunity to hear one of the most
respected authorities on advertising and creative thinking speak in person.

Wieden is probably best know
for co-founding one of the worlds most admired advertising agencies;
Wieden+Kennedy and coining the Nike tagline "Just Do
It." Incidentally Wieden pitched the idea to Nike in 1988 after he
had read a newspaper articl... Continue reading ...

If you’re a regular reader of this blog
then you'll know that I'm a designer who also like’s to write.

Creativity has always been a part of my
life. Some of my earliest memories are of drawing and mark making and it's been
a life long passion that ultimately turned into my profession as a designer.
The recent addition of writing about all things creative has been a
natural and organic extension of my love for what I do.

In a recent interview for a design magazine
I was asked, "who and what inspires me". It's a question that I am
often asked and my initial reply is usually "everything", from my
family (my wife and son are without a doubt my biggest inspiration) to the
great icons of our industry such as Paul Rand and Soul Bass to the the work of
Henryk Thomaszewski, Jan Lenica and Henri Matisse (the list could go on and on
and on…) I wake up inspired almost every morning and by the time I am in my studio,
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In a new series for the design life, I am going to be writing about success, specifically success within the field of design. In this first installment I want to discuss what success really means? Then over the forthcoming series we will strive to break down what it takes to achieve and maintain success.

I did an exercise a while ago to try and visualise what it takes to be a
success within my chosen creative field. I thought it would be fun to feature
it in the opening illustration to this ... Continue reading ...

This is my first post featuring my deep
interest for vintage branding and packaging design. My fascination began whilst
a student where we would often visit the Robert Opie museum of vintage
packaging at the Gloucester Docks in England. From that point on I was hooked
and it's since grown into a leisure pursuit (some might say obsession) of mine,
with my poor wife and son often having our trips away interrupted with me
snapping away at old boxes and signs. The invention of...